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The citizen machine : governing by television in 1950s America / Anna McCarthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Anna, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television and politics--United States.
- Television and politics.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television broadcasting--Philosophy.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Advocacy advertising--United States.
- Advocacy advertising.
- Television advertising--United States.
- Television advertising.
- Television viewers--United States--Attitudes.
- Television viewers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of television in the postwar American political landscape.
- Contents:
- Introduction : television and political culture after World War II
- Sponsors and citizens
- The politics of wooden acting
- The ends of the middlebrow
- Liberal media
- Labor goes public
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: McCarthy, Anna, 1967- Citizen machine.
- ISBN:
- 9781595585967
- 1595585966
- OCLC:
- 662259053
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